Ottoman coins, Roman map of Palestine recovered from smugglers at Cairo airport. Nevine El-Aref, Monday 8 Dec 2014. Collection of 48 antique coins and Roman-era map of Palestine taken from ...

The Ottoman Empire controlled the region for about 400 years before its defeat, along with Germany, in World War I. Britain was given control of Palestine by the League of Nations in 1920, under ...

The map above is from a 1929 TIME article titled “Islam vs. Israel”—even though, as the map makes clear, in 1929 there was no country called Israel. (On a desktop, roll over to zoom; on a ...

Israel-Palestine conflict: A brief history in maps and charts. As Gaza reels from Israel’s devastating bombardments, here’s a brief history of the conflict using maps and charts.

The Ottoman Empire notably ruled the territory of historical Palestine from 1516 to 1917 and the archive contains documents dated to pre-1917. The archive is currently located at the Mithaq ...

After capturing Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War One (1914-18), Britain ruled over Palestine between 1923-1948 under a "mandate" from the League of Nations.

Kenize Mourad was born in France on 11 November 1939 to an Ottoman princess, the exiled granddaughter of Sultan Murad V. Less than two years later, her mother died and Mourad was left in the care ...

AMMAN — Ottoman land reforms are poorly understood by historians, according to Susynne McElrone, an American historian specialised in the history of Palestine. Very little is known about the ...

ISRAELIS and Palestinians are amid the fiercest and bloodiest violence since 2014 with UN officials warning tensions could escalate into an "all-out war", but why are Israel and Palestine at war?